Gold rims/wheels? who? where?! :D

[reanimation]

Had one of my late night ideas last night. :idea:

I went looking for mavic anodized gold or lemon wheels, and found not a lot, possibly some road rims. :? GF's 'new' merlin came with lemon/lime 517 SUP rims... :?: no idea of origin of rims. cold be merlin i guess. will ask

However in new stuff I did find Pimpin' Sunn MTX/S-type (like have on my modern but) in gold
And of course offerings from Halo. These modern pickings are a bit heavy, and modern, but OMG those MTX's are lovely!

Any ideas for retro/semi retro XC wheels rims?

cheerz

 

[kaiser]

Mavic 230's come in a TIB version which has a titanium/gold finish to them. Velocity also had a lemony yellow rim I believe.

 

[reanimation]

Cheers. more leads

 

[Pickle]

Mavic 221's on my RTS are gold

 

[haggis]

217

I've got gold 217s' which are sweet but i'd swap them anyday for sunsets.

 

[sinnett177]

How about stripping a set of wheels you like. Wet and dy them back to bare metal and send to anodisers. Rebuild and you got a perfect set of gold wheels just the way you want them.

 

[reanimation]

Yeah great idea. you know how it is, I can have my retro bike built with retro bits, but it won't be pimp without all these special bits. The old compromise game! I know that one. Thanks for suggestions, I'll watch all avenues for options.

 

[Frank West]

26" Vuelta Airlines come in gold.

EDIT: and they've been making them for almost a decade so they're edging on retro .

 

[cannondale king]

Re: 217

I've got gold 217s' which are sweet but i'd swap them anyday for sunsets.

i just done a rim swap sunset wheel build for stew-b i forgot how cool they look but lemon ano mavic x517 rims and gold mavic 221's come to mind i had some mavic cheery red x517 rims in my hands the other day for a chap's build he had them for years nos and wanted them building they where so lush (drowl)